The M3 Visuals Arts Festival showcased an array of visual art throughout the week, including film screenings, installations, video projections, live video mixing, and live painting. Below is a summary of the program. M3 worked in collaboration with The Miami Beach Cinematheque, home of the Miami Beach Film Society.

Girls on Film emphasizes the artistic process behind the photographs, illustrating the unique ways in which each artist perceives the world. It presents a series of photographs centered on the interaction between music, film, women and the human body from photographers Cara Pastore, Ellen Jong, Doug Meyer, Ali Prosch, and Meg Pukel. For the opening reception, Pukel also projected a series of her nude portraits on the architecture surrounding the Cinemateque.

DIG! is the feature-length documentary shot over seven years about musicians Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, head of the Dandy Warhols, star crossed friends and bitter rivals. It follows the underground giant Anton Newcombe, unearthing him to be an important yet largely unnoticed artist of our time. DIG! is about musicians’ loves and obsessions, gigs and recordings, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers – their choices between art and industry, which unfold with the passage of time.

Sunday, March 7Tom Dowd and The Language Of Music by Mark Moorman
A feature-length documentary profiling the life and work of the legendary producer and recording engineer Tom Dowd — a man whose personal history reflects the evolution of modern music and recording technology. Dowd’s achievements span from his teenage years working on the Manhattan Project during WWII, to recording “race records” and jazz in the ’40’s and ’50’s, to the segregated South during the golden years of Stax Records, to his classic recordings of Miami’s “Atlantic Records South” period, to the digital recording studios of the 21st century. With credits including Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Otis Redding, John Coltrane, The Allman Brothers Band, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Bob Marley, Thelonius Monk, Cream, and countless others, Tom Dowd’s pioneering work in recording techniques helped shape the sound of modern music as we know it today. The master of the craft, Tom Dowd, recounts the recording sessions and technical achievements that forever altered the course of contemporary music.

CineMoto March 6-9
At the Nash and Surfcomber Hotels, visitors can witness the future of mobile multimedia and access exclusive video material on new Motorola handsets via CINEMOTO. Just sit in a lounge chair by the pool and pull the handset toward yourself to watch music videos while you relax. The content includes exclusive new music videos produced by leading music video directors, graphic artists, and designers from around the world, as well as a selection of historical videos spanning club culture’s 20-year history. This is all presented in a newly digitized format for CINEMOTO.